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Faiga vs Faiz

American parents have registered 1,474 Faigas since 1880, against 564 Faizes. Faiga is still ahead, with 72 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faiga against Faiz, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faiga Faiz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Faiga for 41 years and Faiz for 5 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Faiga Faiz
Total US births 1,474564
Most in one year 7428
Babies in 2025 7216
Estimated living today 1,500550
Median age today 1218
Peak year 20242004
Best rank 2,434th girls3,368th boys
Rank in 2025 2,458th5,608th
First recorded 19791977
Girls / boys 1,474 / 00 / 564

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Faizes alive today are over 18; half the Faigas are over 12. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Faiga Faiz
England and Wales 7401

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Faiga and Faiz.